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KMID : 0358519950070010186
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Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
1995 Volume.7 No. 1 p.186 ~ p.190
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A Suspicious Case of Dimethylformamide Induced Fulminant Hepatitis in Synthetic Leather Workers
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Kim Soo-Keun
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Abstract
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A man who worked in the synthetic leather manufacturing plant for 3 months died at November 3. Author review the medical record, the death certificate, and interviewed his wife and the doctor who treated him. His major job wart DMF handling. At the working place, he felt severe health problem, and admitted to the hospital via emergency clinic. He complained severe abdominal pain and showed jaundice and ascites. He suffered hepatic coma and respiratory insufficiency from fulminant hepatitis from 19th days after admission. Drug abuse, hepatitis (A,B,C), and alcoholic hepatitis were rule out with his history and serological study data. As a results, author couldn’t find any cause of death, but fulminant hepatitis from DMF toxicity.
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KEYWORD
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Toxic hepatitis, Dimethylformamide,
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